Category: History
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Borderlands Archives Cartography: United States-Mexico Newspapers Digital Humanities Project
Co-founders: Maira E. Álvarez and Sylvia Fernández The current, constant, and aggressive political rhetoric towards the geographic, ideological, and metaphorical U.S.-Mexico border, as a threat, led to the construction of a counter discourse. As border natives, we understand the borderland as a space where diverse cultures co-exist under strong political, economic, and social hegemonies; as well as, a […]
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Introduction to the HASTAC community
Greetings to the HASTAC community and fellow scholars, My name is Trevor Williams and I am a graduate student at the Divinity School of Vanderbilt University. I recently had the privilege of being appointed as the HASTAC Scholar for the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching. In view of this, I have several reflections regarding my scholarly interests and […]
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Ethnography, With A Twist
Ethnography a qualitative research strategy relies primarily on participant observation glorified people-watching the study and interpretation of cultural behavior Ethnography in Creative Nonfiction Writing Some Ideas… maybe we stumble upon some information about Wicca, so we decide to look up if there’s a Wicca community in our city… this leads us to attend […]
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Collective Statement by Medievalists of Color
Yesterday we at HASTAC received an email about the statement collectively published by Medievalists of Color, in response to a number of recent controversies in medieval studies, from the distinguished early modernist, Professor Geraldine Heng, one of HASTAC’s early Steering Committee members and a continuing member of our Council of Advisors. Professor Heng is the Perceval […]
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Digitizing the Polasek Archive: Introduction
Tucked away in the scenic town of Winter Park, Florida is the Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens, a Historic Artist Home and Studio. Although not an institution that is large in terms of square-footage, the museum holds high aspirations as a valued part of Winter Park local history, and connections to international historical narratives. […]
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End of the Semester
Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great end of the semester! I realize that my blog posts were rather sporadic and I wish I had contributed a bit more this semester. Anyhow, I just figured I’d publish an end of the semester update/accomplishment post as Kalle suggested in his email. I’m very excited to share that […]
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The Operative Image Syllabus
The City College of New York MFA in Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice Workshop: The Operative Image: approaches to the political in contemporary moving image practices Instructor: Aily Nash Course Description What can an image do? How does the image represent? How does the image convey a historical narrative or event? This […]
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Catalog as Book, File, and Database: Cataloging History, Part 3
Co-written with Steven Lubar on Medium: This is the third part of a four-part series on the history and theory of museum and exhibition catalogs, focusing on the 1853 New York Crystal Palace. We use the catalogs of the Crystal Palace to consider catalogs (and their descendent, the database) more generally. (This installment is co-authored with […]
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Calling Something a Dataset: Visualizing the Crystal Palace
From Digital Storytelling: Since December, I’ve been working with Steven Lubar for a presentation at Bard College last week. The event focused on the 1853 New York Crystal Palace. Lubar has introduced his presentation over at Medium. (Parts one through three are up at the moment – the next installment will complement this piece.) Most […]
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Transcript of Comparative Literature Dissertation Defense Presentation
Below is the approximate transcript of the presentation I delivered to begin my (successful) dissertation defense in the Comparative Literature department of the Graduate Center, City University of New York. The defense took place on April 19, 2017. The thesis is entitled Lyrical Mysticism: The Writing and Reception of Catherine of Siena, and the digital […]